Barrel support



A. OLSON BARREL SUPPORT i Dec. 7, 1926.

Filed Nov. 30, 1923 Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

warren/star ALFRED OLSON, OF CLARK, SOUTH DAKOTA.

BARREL SUPPORT.

Application filed November 39, 1923. Serial No. 877.725. i

The present invention relates to improvements in the construction of stands for barrels, and has for its object to produce a device of this character which is of an extremely cheap, simple, but strong and effective construction, whereby the same may be easily and quicklysecured to barrels of dif: ferent sizes so as to provide a support for said barrels, and whereby the barrels may be readily tilted to permit of the delivery of fluid therefrom or raised to a standing position when not thus used, so that leaking of the contents through the opening in the barrel for the faucet will be thus effectively prevented, and also whereby said barrel may be effectively handled. Broadly, the present invention comprises a substantially V-shaped supporting structure which is provided with beads for connecting it with the chines of a barrel. This structure is such that when it is attached to the barrel, the apex thereof is disposed on one side of the transverse center of the barrel. The apexed portion provides a fulcrum or axis upon which the barrel may be rocked, and this fulcrum comes into play when the barrel is being moved from a vertical to a horizontal position. It then provides a constant fulcrum upon which the barrel may be rocked at will to vary the level.

More specifically speaking, the supporting structure is composed of a pair of V shaped side frames each of which is in turn made up of a pair of inwardly diverging arms pivotally connected at their convergingends. These arms being adjustable toward and from each other and being equipped with chine engaging hooks, and there being a pivoted prop. used in association therewith for sustaining the barrel in a horizontal position.

Other objects will appear as the nature of.

the invention is better understood, and the same consists in the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawing and claimed.

In the drawing, wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figurel is a side elevation illustrating the improvement applied to a barrel and supporting the latter in a substantially horizontal tilted position, 7

Figure 2 .is a top plan vview of the inn-- mat, and i Figure 8 is a front end elevation of the device shown in Figure 1, with the barrel partly broken away.

As before intimated, this improvedbarrcl stand, which may be broadly referred to as a V-shaped supporting structure, is in the present instance specifically made up of a pair of V-shaped side frames, these being disposed in transverse spacel relation and in parallelism to each other. Eachframe is composed of arms orbars 5 and 6, these be ing disposed in divergent relation and their inner converging ends being pivotally connected together as at 7. The free ends of the arms are provided with inturned hooks 8 adapted to engage the chines at the opposite ends of the'barrel.

The arms 5 are slightly longer than the arms 6 so that the point of pivotal connectfon between the adjacent inner ends as indicated at 7, will be slightly to one side of the transverse center of the barrel 9 when the device is applied to the latter. This properly balances and insures that the barrel will remain in its tiltedposition underv the influence of gravity, and in order to sustain the barrel in this substantially horizontal tilted position and against further tilting movement. folding legs 10 have their upper ends pivotally connected as at 11 to the intermediate portions of the arms 5.

One of a pair of rods 12 is pivotally engaged at one end as vat 13, with substantally the intermediate portion of each of the arms or bars 6, and each rod 12 has an outturned end adapted to be selectively disposed in a desired one of numerous perfora tions 14 provided in the intermediate portion of the connected arm 5, the outturned end of each rod 12 being retained in such opening by means of a cotter pin or the like. The rods 12 thus provide means for holding the shoe sections 5 and 6 in the de sired angular relation, and adjusting said rods to engage difierent ones of the perforations 14, the angular relations of the shoe sections may be changed to bring the hooks 8 into engagement with various sizes of barrels, It is to be observed that when changing the angularity of the arms of the frame, the point of fulcrum is not affected, in other words, the fulcrum is always in the same relation with respect to the barrel due to the relative length of the arnrs which all times disposes the fuleriun slightly center.

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The arms are connected in spaced parallel relation so as to constitute the side frame members disposed at opposite sides of the barrel when in use, by means of transverse rods 15, 16 and l7, and the rod 15 forms a pivotal connection between the bars of the two trainee, while the legs 10 have their pivotal connections 11 'fOIHlGCl by mounting said legs upon the ends of the rod 17. The rods 16 and 1? pass through the arms '5 and s so as .to extend transversely beneath the barrel 9 for supporting reception of the latter, and the lower-ends of the legs 10 are connected and braced by means of a further transverse rod 18, as well pair or cross braces 19.

It is obvious from the foregoing descrip tfon that I have prvined a novel barrel stand which is adapted to be permanently attached to a barrel, the structure bcu g such thatthe chine engaging means is adjustable toward and iron each other to permit the stand to be engagedwith different size barre When making this adjustment however, the disposition of .t to tulcruin with respect to the transverse cent r of the barrel varied. before stated, this disposition of the fulcrum, formed by the apex of the '-shaped structure, with res )ect to the center of the barrel is very important in that it serves at a predetermined time during the lowering of the barrel from a vertical to a horizontal position as a tulcru'ni for the barrel. Also, at er the barrel is sn dig to the horizontal position seen in Fie'ure 1, a constant fulcrum 18 .d the barprovided a rel may be rocked at will upon this fulcrum to vary its level. The prop or swiig leg however serve to sustain it in this horizon 1 position a ainst undue downw rd tilting. Qbviously, this permits the barrel to be set in a substantially horizontal position even though the surface upon wl ich it is rested is quite uneven due to the fact that the supporting prop can be disposed at the desired angle with res acct to the frames. Also, by proriding this arrangement, the barrel can be easil drained -b tiltino the s )i 'ot .carr

ing end downwardly, knocking the prop from beneath, and balancing the barrel upon its axis or fulcrum.

From the above description itis believed that the construction and operation as well posed oft center with r-es ect to the trans- .verse center of the barrel bein located at 7 IE3 V transversely opposite penis and forming a floor engaging fulcrum, n'ieans for connecting said frames together in spaced parallelism, and supporting leg pivotally connected to the forward portion of each frame.

2 A barrel stand comprising a substan ially V-shapcd .upporting iitructure coinposed of a pair of transversely spaced side l'rani-es disposed in parallelism with respect to each other, each frame being inade up of a pair of inwardly diverging arms pivot ally connec'et together at their converging ends, the outer ends of said arms being provided with chine'engaging hooks, corresponding arms of said frame being of a leneth great-er than the remaining arms to dispose the apices of the frame between the transverse center and one end of the barrel, said ,apices being located directly opposite ach other to provide an offset fulcrum for the barrel, cross rods connected with saii arins upon which the barrel is adapted to rest, supporting legs adjustably connected with the intermediate portions of the long arms, and a rod connecting said supporting legs together.

in testimony whereof l atllx my signature.

ALFRED OLSON. 

